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Meditations in Midair

Meditations in Midair REVIEW ESSAYS emina mušanović A review of Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013). Cited in the text as ho. There is a moment in nearly all Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons wherein the coyote, having been tricked into succumbing to his own more or less elaborate trap, runs off the edge of a cliff. Though he eventually plummets down with gusto, he fi rst runs out horizontally beyond the precipice and is briefl y suspended there, unaware of the sudden loss of ground. Only when he looks down, realizing that he has bid farewell to the support of terra fi rma, is he seized by the vertiginous verticality. But until he catches up to the abrupt change in his gravitational predicament, he is virtually suspended, held up by an imagined, transcendent ground mapped onto the gaping abyss. In a short- lived moment of the mind’s tri- umph over the weight of matter, Coyote continues to run midair, mechanically enacting what Graham Harman calls “a procedure no longer fl exibly adjusted to its surroundings.” Harman, whose object- oriented ontology (ooo) informs Timothy Morton’s work, argues that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences University of Nebraska Press

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REVIEW ESSAYS emina mušanović A review of Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013). Cited in the text as ho. There is a moment in nearly all Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons wherein the coyote, having been tricked into succumbing to his own more or less elaborate trap, runs off the edge of a cliff. Though he eventually plummets down with gusto, he fi rst runs out horizontally beyond the precipice and is briefl y suspended there, unaware of the sudden loss of ground. Only when he looks down, realizing that he has bid farewell to the support of terra fi rma, is he seized by the vertiginous verticality. But until he catches up to the abrupt change in his gravitational predicament, he is virtually suspended, held up by an imagined, transcendent ground mapped onto the gaping abyss. In a short- lived moment of the mind’s tri- umph over the weight of matter, Coyote continues to run midair, mechanically enacting what Graham Harman calls “a procedure no longer fl exibly adjusted to its surroundings.” Harman, whose object- oriented ontology (ooo) informs Timothy Morton’s work, argues that

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Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences – University of Nebraska Press

Published: Oct 9, 2014

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